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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
proscribe .
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Examples
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The error lies in the law, or in the judicial interpretation thereof, and no code of army regulations can be made that meets the case, until Congress, like the French Corps Legislatif, utterly annihilates and "proscribes" the old law and the system which has grown up under it.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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The error lies in the law, or in the judicial interpretation thereof, and no code of army regulations can be made that meets the case, until Congress, like the French Corps Legislatif, utterly annihilates and "proscribes" the old law and the system which has grown up under it.
The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Volume II., Part 4 1855
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The error lies in the law, or in the judicial interpretation thereof, and no code of army regulations can be made that meets the case, until Congress, like the French Corps Legislatif, utterly annihilates and "proscribes" the old law and the system which has grown up under it.
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The error lies in the law, or in the judicial interpretation thereof, and no code of army regulations can be made that meets the case, until Congress, like the French Corps Legislatif, utterly annihilates and "proscribes" the old law and the system which has grown up under it.
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The district court convicted him of violating Espanola Municipal Ordinance Section 70 – 211 (a) (4), which proscribes “[r] esisting or abusing any ... peace officer in the lawful discharge of his duties.”
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He has displeased several in that neck of the woods by announcing that he will not seek to repeal Section 13 (1) of the Canadian Human Rights Act, which proscribes hate speech.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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The Catholic Church neither submits to enthusiasm nor proscribes it, but uses it.
Opus Dei, in Hollywood and Rome David Gibson 2011
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It does science quite well, actually, and the Space Act, on which appropriations for the agency are based, proscribes just that.
Obama R&D Speech Provides Very Little for NASA - NASA Watch 2009
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The schemes of Robert Rubin were really recycled Eisenhower administration thinking, which conveniently proscribes raising taxes and government spending.
Interest Rate Debate, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Re, skepticism, Socratic irony and skepticism does not proscribe a transcendent realism, rather, it proscribes our ability to come to positive or positivist terms with any such transcendence.
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